Smart Ass Cripple: Police Are Not Mental Health Professionals
When cops are the first responders to a mental health crisis, it often ends in tragedy.
When an on-duty police officer sets someone on fire, have they violated that personâs civil rights?Â
Iâd venture to guess that any reasonable person would say yes. But apparently there are at least three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals who believe otherwise.
More than 1,300 of the fatal shootings by police since 2014 involved someone the police said was having a mental health crisis. Thatâs about 25 percent of all people killed by police during that timespan.
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